Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Smith

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

Charles Lamb

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.

Charlie Munger

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

William Shakespeare

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Kurt Vonnegut

The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.

Kurt Vonnegut

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Jane Austen

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

William Shakespeare

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

David Quammen

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Charlie Munger

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

Bruce Springsteen

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

Octavia E. Butler

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

January Jones

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

Jared Diamond

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

Bill Maher

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

Bob Iger

People don't like to follow pessimists.

Edmond Rostand

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

Dawn Powell

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.